According to Krlich, the honking started when he sued the town's then-fire chief in an attempt to buy the house next door, which had been in John Clemente's family for generations. Krlich failed, Clemente moved in, and the horn-honking started

Yeah - I think the honking is over someone being an asshole in the first place.

Now, he's suing at least 40 alleged honkers. Says Clemente's wife, "Just a regular beep or just to beep at the neighbors across the street, he'll take you to court."

WELP, still an asshole. I can't wait for this to make it to the Supreme Court over whether horn honking is free speech.

Benevolent Misanthrope:According to Krlich, the honking started when he sued the town's then-fire chief in an attempt to buy the house next door, which had been in John Clemente's family for generations. Krlich failed, Clemente moved in, and the horn-honking started

Yeah - I think the honking is over someone being an asshole in the first place.

Now, he's suing at least 40 alleged honkers. Says Clemente's wife, "Just a regular beep or just to beep at the neighbors across the street, he'll take you to court."

WELP, still an asshole. I can't wait for this to make it to the Supreme Court over whether horn honking is free speech.

I'll paraphrase my understanding: Clemente was a guardian for his aunt, who owned half of the house with her brother. The house was worth $40K. When the brother died, Clemente offered the brother's family $20K to buy out their half. They said OK and the Probate Court approved it.

Then later, Krlich (the guy next door suing over the honking), filed a lawsuit saying he had offered more and he should be able to buy the half interest in the house. The Court told him too late, STFU. He appealed and said the Court didn't know what they were talking about. The Court told him to STFU again, and mind his own business.

This being a small town, I'm guessing Krlich was also expected to fark with Clemente so that he would be able to get the entire property for a song, or at least buy it out from under him in a hostile motion. But that's just a guess based on my experience with both assholes and small towns.

Benevolent Misanthrope:According to Krlich, the honking started when he sued the town's then-fire chief in an attempt to buy the house next door, which had been in John Clemente's family for generations. Krlich failed, Clemente moved in, and the horn-honking started

Yeah - I think the honking is over someone being an asshole in the first place.

Now, he's suing at least 40 alleged honkers. Says Clemente's wife, "Just a regular beep or just to beep at the neighbors across the street, he'll take you to court."

WELP, still an asshole. I can't wait for this to make it to the Supreme Court over whether horn honking is free speech.

/Depends - are corporations or churches doing it? Free speech.

Yes it's free speech. In the same manner that calling someone over and over and hanging up is free speech. Like graffiti is free speech. So is dumping flyers on their lawn. After all, flyers have words on them, don't they. Because free speech isn't about the expression of an idea, it's about the method of delivery.

Miss Alexandra:In the apartment complex where I live (and it's in Ohio) people come to pick up other people and they sit there and honk every few minutes. Early in the morning.

Just TEXT the people you're picking up if you both have cellphones, or haul your lazy keister out and knock on the door!

Would I be a jerk if I used my keyless entry to lock my van's doors, which causes it to beep briefly? Or if I'm in a really bad mood, hit the panic button...? (No I don't do that.)

Man, that makes me nuts. I used to live in a unit over the driveway to the garage in an apartment building. People would literally pull up a few feet below my bedroom window at 7 in the morning and start honking.

Benevolent Misanthrope:leevis: tlchwi02: leevis: A friend of mine is engaged to a guy in that town. She told me about this last year.

so whats the guys deal with the original law suit?

Don't know, she only told me about a bunch of people honking their horns at some guy.

You can read the case here.

I'll paraphrase my understanding: Clemente was a guardian for his aunt, who owned half of the house with her brother. The house was worth $40K. When the brother died, Clemente offered the brother's family $20K to buy out their half. They said OK and the Probate Court approved it.

Then later, Krlich (the guy next door suing over the honking), filed a lawsuit saying he had offered more and he should be able to buy the half interest in the house. The Court told him too late, STFU. He appealed and said the Court didn't know what they were talking about. The Court told him to STFU again, and mind his own business.

This being a small town, I'm guessing Krlich was also expected to fark with Clemente so that he would be able to get the entire property for a song, or at least buy it out from under him in a hostile motion. But that's just a guess based on my experience with both assholes and small towns.

The neighbors think he's an asshole. Wonder why.

Oops - I got it backwards. Clemente already had inherited half of the property from the brother. His cousin was the Guardian, selling to him. Krlich was still trying to buy a half interest and prevent Clemente from being able to move into the house.

Metinks there is more to this, probably having to do with Krlich not wanting Clemente to move in for some reason. but Krlich is most likely still an asshole.

I have a simple solution - any person who uses their horn for any reason other than to warn of an emergency shall be taken to a place of public execution and hanged by the neck until dead, and then cut into tiny pieces, and the pieces used to fuel a blast furnace in which we incinerate anyone genetically related to them.That should do nicely.

40 people who are petty little people and a bunch of losers. The complainant's address is in the police report and if you look on Google Maps, there are other houses close by. As a neighbor I'd be irritated at people beeping their horns over this stuff.

I saw that, too, and wondered if it was serious derp or just trolling.I don't understand why news sites allow comments. It makes those sites appear as if their readers are the dumbest motherfarkers on Earth.

The Flexecutioner:i'll care about this story when there's video confirming how much a nuisance this really is. 10 honks a day? 200 honks a day?

oh who am i kidding. i will never care about this story.

For some reason, I'm fascinated with this asshole.

Here's his side of it. He keeps insisting that "the taxpayer" needs to get outraged about this whole thing. He is just digging himself in deeper and deeper with his small-town neighbors, who probably don't like him much anyway, being the guy that buys up property from local families when they are down and then rents them out and makes a killing on it. Nothing illegal about that, but it's not a way to endear yourself to small town rural neighbors.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a matter of one family - I imagine (and I can be wrong) that this is just an excuse for the town to fark with a guy they don't like anyway. This is the whole town basically saying, "You're an asshole, Garrick."

100 Watt Walrus:Miss Alexandra: In the apartment complex where I live (and it's in Ohio) people come to pick up other people and they sit there and honk every few minutes. Early in the morning.

Just TEXT the people you're picking up if you both have cellphones, or haul your lazy keister out and knock on the door!

Would I be a jerk if I used my keyless entry to lock my van's doors, which causes it to beep briefly? Or if I'm in a really bad mood, hit the panic button...? (No I don't do that.)

Man, that makes me nuts. I used to live in a unit over the driveway to the garage in an apartment building. People would literally pull up a few feet below my bedroom window at 7 in the morning and start honking.

Benevolent Misanthrope:The Flexecutioner: i'll care about this story when there's video confirming how much a nuisance this really is. 10 honks a day? 200 honks a day?

oh who am i kidding. i will never care about this story.

For some reason, I'm fascinated with this asshole.

Here's his side of it. He keeps insisting that "the taxpayer" needs to get outraged about this whole thing. He is just digging himself in deeper and deeper with his small-town neighbors, who probably don't like him much anyway, being the guy that buys up property from local families when they are down and then rents them out and makes a killing on it. Nothing illegal about that, but it's not a way to endear yourself to small town rural neighbors.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a matter of one family - I imagine (and I can be wrong) that this is just an excuse for the town to fark with a guy they don't like anyway. This is the whole town basically saying, "You're an asshole, Garrick."

i read about half of that. this sounds like a bunch of busybodies being spiteful to one another. i know its only one side of the story but i cant decide who's the lesser of these two weevils (pun intended). i might enjoy this if i was on the front porch in a rockin chair hearing the nitty gritty from my Aunt Hazel, but only if she'd been drinkin.